Posts by Mark 85

Is a large ironing board and steam iron on the schedule? Starch or no-starch?

The list would be shorter if it were "non-evil" companies.

Re: They could have just paid me (handsomely)

But there should be an extra charge for spilling coffee, soft drinks, beer, maybe French fries and other tidbits. Then there's the "special" cases that have been reported by various "news" services about people eating whole fried chickens and other greasy foods.

Re: Radar Ranges

I'd bet that the word got out on when the sweep would be made and illegal equipment was shut down. Most engineers are very good at networking with other engineers and lab techs... word of mouth moves quickly.

Re: Sounds to me...

this whole court case seems to be an exercise in saving face for the people still at the firm and profits and thus bonuses for the board.

There's a reason why the high levels didn't want to talk about "security" as security costs money. When in doubt, follow the money.

Re: You can't be free publicity.

Another interesting bit is the uptick in "visits". The article implies it's "curious adults". I'm thinking it's the kids loading up their stash for "later".....

Re: Great news

Well there's two sets of rules... one is that you have jump through hopes, proper papers, etc. The other is you hire undocumented workers. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out who hires undocumented workers.

Flawed thinking maybe? One doesn't have to be "in" a café, etc. to use the WiFi. Just in range of the signal. But then, when playing with a 'puter, a cuppa' is mandatory.

Re: Too late

A greed driven mega corp who treat their customers as a cash cow to keep investors happy.

I question this about keeping investors happy. With the money they've shipped off shore how does that benefit "investors"?

Re: Reserved Storage

Come on, Microsoft, any serious Windows user has been buying a second disk

The key word is "serious". Most users don't buy a second disk or even know what a second disk is. MS doesn't do stuff for us tech types or even really acknowledge our existence. They build for the lowest common denominator and know full well, that most users won't complain or won't know what a steaming pile they've been handed.

Re: How about?

Great idea. There must be a market for them.. say various politicians, religious nut cases, along with CEO's and Hollywood types.

Re: Also missing from Google's naughty ad list

What say you Google?

Chortles and counts the money is probably their response.

Well, maybe. I just hope it isn't posthumously.

Re: So Ginni should watch out.

Unlikely since she's the head cheese. I think it will get interesting if the "spokesperson" were suddenly let go at a certain age. If they're good at what they do, they know where the bodies are buried or at least they know who buried them.

Re: (KB4480970) Also hoses Windows 7 32 bit on Tosh Lappy

Well, it wouldn't be the first time they pulled something underhanded to get everyone on the shiny Win10 would it? I've taken to ignore all updates except security for Win7 of late. I'm still waiting a week in case they pull some BS and slip a Win7 killer into a "security' update. Nothing surprises me any more.

Re: The GSM/LTE call protocol may be an even bigger risk

For a terrorist/assassin to determine a specific target is at the right location to set off the bomb. Maybe it will take the latter to happen before someone seriously considers the protocol security as a risk?

You are probably correct on this. And after legislation passes, the companies will raise their rates because this particular income source has been cut off. Then they'll tack on a "national security" charge in the name of "keeping you safe" and also adding to the profit. Maybe I shouldn't have posted this, it will give them ideas.

Re: Patently ridiculous?

Does this sort of shit happen in other domains, Pharmaceuticals for instance?

Seems that being a patent troll (even if you manufactur) is big business. Large corporations are sucking up patents quite a bit of late. It's not just tech companies. Seems there's a business model that if you own patents, the license fees will make a nice profit even after legal expenses. Look up Martin Shkrell and Turing Pharmaceuticals for some drug shenanigans.

I just noticed. here's another story about patent trolls and licenses.. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/08/wilan_apple_lawsuit/

Shakespeare was right about what should be done with lawyers.

Re: As ever

Not having used Github in a long tine, I was wondering about "the product". I guess they sell ads for "proper placement" now?

Re: Real Men

So a Spartan then?

Re: So...

There has to be someone to blame!!!!!. The Daily Mail said so . . .

Forget the Daily Mail... go talk to a lawyer and sue someone because it's their fault.

Re: AfD data missing

So I'll leave it to the usual tinfoil hats to make up a suitable conspiracy theory on why they have been spared. Bob, you are reading this, right?

Perhaps "Bob" is part of the President's PR department has been laid off due to the government shutdown? If we're going with conspiracy theories might as well dump one more out there.

Re: There's disposable income then there's

Well... Cook and company aren't thinking are they? They make their products in China, pay the workers peanuts and expect them to buy a phone that's way out of their budget. It would be like Ferrari expressing surprise that factory workers in Italy aren't buying their cars. That might be poor analogy but it's the best I have at the moment.

Re: The real solution

Two things come to mind.. Why so long between vulnerability and detection? And how can we be sure fancy bear isn't just a drop bear in drag. And this shows there are.. problems with UEFI

If I were really paranoid, I would suspect that this has been in the wild since maybe 2010 but only used on highly targeted, high value targets. From the description, there's no telling how long it's been out there and there's no real fix except as the article mentioned.

Nope, I wasn't able to catch it either. Apparently from Googling, it's up the individual bosun to word it as they see fit after the pipe. So it varies from day to day and bosun to bosun.

Re: Alice

Upvote for the Alice and moon reference.

Re: Cooking Basmati

Here's seems to be the best way. I've been using it for some time now. And "brown" rice is worse for arsenic than the "white".

https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/how-cook-rice-remove-most-arsenic.htmlhttps://www.treehugger.com/green-food/how-cook-rice-remove-most-arsenic.html

Re: Look out

I remember a conversion with the chief medical officer of an insurance company I worked for. His believe was that smokers were good for the company as they died early and cost the company less money. His target was the obese who cost much due to heart, blood circulation issues. They're bodies got nibbled away slowly from multiple surgeries to stop what was unstoppable and also from treatments like dialysis.

I'm of a mixed view here. I do smoke and am trying to stop. But it's my own damn fault and no one should have to pay for my stupidity. Nor do I want a lingering death. I see my doctor annually and that's about it. I do pay huge insurance premiums to pay for those who end up obese and diabetic. Mixed feelings here.

Re: "wouldn't be common freakin' sense to not surf dodgy websites at work?"

We had one of those that didn't get fired for several years. He was the "canary" in the mine sort of. His browsing records were examined daily and new sites added to the block list. At some point he figured out to get around the block list it so IT watched and figured out how he did it and reworked the firewall. Finally layoff time came around and he was the first to go. The security department sent him a box of candy with a "thanks for all your help" note. I kind of doubt that he understood the gift.